Who Are We?
- Professor Gerri August, Department of Education, Rhode Island College
- Professor Arlene Dallalfar, Department of Sociology, Lesley University
- Professor Joyce Gibson, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Professor Gerald Janey, Department of Physics, Massasoit Community College
- Professor Marjorie Jones, Department of Education, Lesley University
- Professor Esther Kingston-Mann, History/American Studies Departments, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Professor Carolyn Panofsky, Educational Studies, Rhode Island College
- Professor Robin Robinson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Professor Arlyn Sanchez Silva, Department of Foreign Languages, Emmanuel College
- Professor Maureen Scully, College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Professor Mohammad Tamdgidi, Deptartment of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Laura Brooks, Program Assistant, University of Massachusetts Boston
The awards are named for Esther Kingston-Mann, former director of UMass-Boston's Center for the Improvement of Teaching (CIT) and founding-director of The New England Center for Inclusive Teaching. Publications include: A Diversity Research Initiative: How Students Become Researchers, Change Agents, and Members of a Research Community (Boston, 1999), Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students, co-edited with Tim Sieber (2003), and 'Teaching, Learning, Diversity: Just Don't Call It Epistemology!' The Discourse of Sociological Practice (2004)